Apache Rave: A new social mashup engine!
Congrats to the Apache Rave team on reaching top-level project status.
OpenSocial API Blog: Announcing Apache Rave: The project started only a year ago, March 1 2011, when entering the Apache Incubator as a collaborative effort by individuals from a wide range of corporations, non-commercial organizations, and institutes from around the world and was seeded by code donations from The MITRE Corporation, Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, SURFnet, OSS Watch, Hippo, and numerous individual developers.
Rave builds on open standards and leverages and aligns with other open source projects like Apache Shindig and Apache Wookie to deliver a lightweight, flexible, widget-based platform that easily scales across federated application integrations, social intranets, and multi-channel social communities with enhanced personalization and customized content delivery.
Amazon cloud: half-a-million Linux servers
Interesting speculation on the make-up of Amazon's cloud:
Amazon EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million Linux servers | ZDNet :
We know that Linux on servers is big and getting bigger. We also knew that Linux, thanks to open-source cloud programs like Eucalyptus and OpenStack, was growing fast on clouds. What he hadnt know that Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), had close to half-a-million servers already running on a Red Hat Linux variant.
Huang Liu, a Research Manager with Accenture Technology Lab with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering whose has done extensive work on cloud-computing, analyzed EC2s infrastructure and found that Amazon EC2 is currently made up of 454,400 servers.
JIRA finally gets its own REST API
JIRA's got a real REST API now:
REST easy with JIRA 5 | Atlassian Blogs: Now that JIRA 5 is out, lets talk about one of my favorite features of this new release, JIRAs new REST API. JIRA has supported remote APIs for many years with SOAP, XML-RPC, and JSON-RPC. However, telling developers that you support SOAP (and only SOAP) is like saying that you like writing applications with COBOL its out of style. Todays cool kids gravitate towards REST. Its clean, simple, and highly portable across languages and frameworks.
And checkout the nice looking API docs, which look like they were generated by WADL-to-HTML.
An alternative to Atlassian's new API is the recently release Rational OSLC Adapter for JIRA, which allows you to do more sophisticated integrations with JIRA including delegated UIs for issue creation and selection.